Quotes About Author

People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group.

Reloader was a term he'd picked up from Dox. It meant someone so formidable you'd empty the whole magazine into him, eject, reload, and empty the second magazine, too, just to be sure.

I ordered another Springbank. She asked me questions: how I knew so much about single malt whisky, where I lived in the States, how many times I'd been to Tokyo. She was comfortable in her role and I let her play it.

madre de dios. Watching him in profile, she felt a wave

The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary.

Memory, the whole lying opera of it, is killing me now.

You're a liberal, right? You adore positive logic, and you have a certain political awareness, which maybe is the conscience of the privileged.

it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control.

PEOPLE ARE DRIVEN TO SOCIAL COMPARISON LARGELY BECAUSE they care about status, and status, of course, has social comparison built into it.

The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul

To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.

The other advantage of making the author a famous religious figure of the past is that such books often purport to tell the future.

Almost certainly the divine self-claims in John are not historical.

fundamental question: Did Jesus and his disciples teach an orthodoxy that was transmitted to the churches of the second and third centuries?

The word synoptic means "seen together":

It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his work—possibly in a second edition.

Eventually incarnation Christologies developed significantly and overtook exaltation Christologies, which came to be deemed inadequate and, eventually, "heretical.

apocalypses, in which an author is given a secret revelation about the divine, heavenly mysteries that can make sense of the mundane, earthly realities.

Skepticism is demanding evidence before believing; cynicism is not believing even with evidence

Acts is theological history, while the Gospels are theological biographies, i.e., biographies written with a theological agenda.

This view lost out in the ensuing debates

The author of Acts, who has put these words on Peter's lips, sees that everything—even the disastrous events of Jesus' betrayal and execution—was according to plan.

When his predictions didn't come true, or even close to true, he continued writing books and giving lectures about how now the signs were coming to be fulfilled

Irenaeus was particularly distressed about the widespread presence of Gnostic Christians in the midst of the church.